Heavyweight boxing & mixed martial arts ratings and commentary

September 2012

September 01, 2012

Perhaps, but September 2012 is shaping up as one of the better months in years

The month of August was a very forgettable one for heavyweight boxing, as you can tell by looking at our Top 100: there are NO wins or losses reported among the top 100 fighters, simply some downward movement for inactivity.

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AugRank

SeptRank

Fighter

Rating

Rated Record

August results / September schedule

1

1

1

1

1

WLAD KLITSCHKO

69.90

36-3-0

2

2

2

2

2

VITALI KLITSCHKO

46.91

26-2-0

...9/08 vs. #17 MANUEL CHARR

4

3

3

3

3

ALEX POVETKIN

37.88

18-0-0

...9/29 vs. #100 HASIM RAHMAN

94

9

4

4

4

TYSON FURY

23.23

9-0-0

74

5

5

5

5

ROBERT HELENIUS

22.64

9-0-0

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14

13

6

6

KUBRAT PULEV

20.77

10-0-0

...9/29 vs. #22 ALEX USTINOV

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4

23

7

7

TOMASZ ADAMEK

20.47

7-1-0

...9/08 vs. #174 TRAVIS WALKER

7

13

8

8

8

CHRIS ARREOLA

19.87

19-2-0

6

10

11

9

9

RUSLAN CHAGAEV

19.10

15-2-0

...9/01 vs. Werner Kreiskott

23

8

9

10

10

DAVID HAYE

18.31

6-1-0

Two fighters in the top 100 had bouts—#38 Alexander Flores and #46 Jason Bergmann—but neither was against a rated fighter. In our entire database, only three fighters (outside the top 100) had significant fights:

Travis Kaufmann rose from #146 to #135 after beating Charles Davis, who fell from #225 to #259

Hector Avila lost a cruiserweight bout and fell from #131 to #180; his victor doesn't become rated since it wasn't a heavyweight contest

Note that possibly the most high-profile heavyweight fight this month was #105 Deontay Wilder beating Kertson Manswell, but Manswell was dropped from the system for too many consecutive losses so that fight isn't entered, either.

This activity—2 fights entered into the database—is the fewest we can find for a month since September, 1897. That's 1897, not 1997.

But help is on the way. September, 2012 is shaping up as one of the busiest in the sport in quite a while. Just among our top 100 there are 25 scheduled bouts listed in Boxrec: 13 between two rated fighters, 7 between two in the top 100, 2 of which between top 25 boxers.

And remember, those are just the fights involving the top 100; there are many others such as cruiserweight champ Steve Cunningham's debut at heavyweight against Jason Gavern. Undoubtedly some of these won't happen but no matter what, September promises to be many, many times more entertaining than August and next month's top 100 will have some red and green on it instead of an expanse of yellow!